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  • R Rage

    Pfff... This is old, and only works with Windows 7. A Great Tip is WinKey+Shift+Left Arrow or Right Arrow, to move the current windows on your monitor which is left or right to the current one.

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    QuiJohn
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    THAT one I didn't know. That's great for getting crap out of the way. Thanks :)

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    • J Jimmy Savile

      I know I can't believe I've gone through my life minimising every screen(sometimes 20 at a time)and it's not even occurred to me that there must be an easier way. It was only today a collegue saw me doing it and showed me the alternative. :-O

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      Albert Holguin
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      :laugh: Well we all gotta learn somehow... In Windows 7 there's also the window shake trick... You've probably never heard of that either so (bad video but it'll give you the idea): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XVtipEecVw[^]

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      • S Simon_Whale

        you think just having XP is bad, where I work we are trying to convert a Access 2000 (and yes I did say Acess 2000) project into C# at the moment. because of the Access issue we are running XP on 99% of the desktops.

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        Jimmy Savile
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        Simon_Whale wrote:

        because of the Access issue we are running XP on 99% of the desktops. I am currently updating my CV and sending it to as many people as possible

        FTFY

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        • J Jimmy Savile

          And what's your point? I didn't say other companies don't have 'windows' I said I associate the word with Microsoft and thus prefer to use the word 'screen' instead.

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          I'm sorry I offended your delicate sensibilities. I was simply trying to making a joke. Evidently, I failed.

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          • J J4amieC

            XP? Holy fucking archaic OS batman!

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            My home machine is still on XP because that's what it came with when I bought it, 6½ years ago. We use most pieces of consumer tech for longer than that, why not computers?

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              I'm sorry I offended your delicate sensibilities. I was simply trying to making a joke. Evidently, I failed.

              The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin

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              Jimmy Savile
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              Yeah definitely went over my head.

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              • J Jimmy Savile

                If you read it again you will see that I never once used the word 'windows' something somebody has chastised me for already in this thread.

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                S Houghtelin
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                You don't have screens on your windows, how do you keep the bugs out? Ah, but we are talking about Windows... :rolleyes:

                It was broke, so I fixed it.

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                • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                  I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about this tip. I clicked on the bar and not all my windows closed. I know this because the cat just tried to climb out of the open one to get at the birdies. Please be more accurate in future. Yours, Brigadier Sir Charles Arthur Strong (Mrs.) P.S. I have never kissed the editor of the Radio Times.

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                  OriginalGriff wrote:

                  all my windows closed

                  "Minimize" is a better word.

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                  • B BobJanova

                    My home machine is still on XP because that's what it came with when I bought it, 6½ years ago. We use most pieces of consumer tech for longer than that, why not computers?

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                    Albert Holguin
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                    Plus it's like the gnome 2 equivalent in the Windows world (and look how popular gnome 2 continues to be)... it just works, nothing fancy, just works.

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                    • B BobJanova

                      My home machine is still on XP because that's what it came with when I bought it, 6½ years ago. We use most pieces of consumer tech for longer than that, why not computers?

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                      kreigle
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                      And both our desktops are over 12 yrs old. A dual PIII and a dual Athlon MP. I'm running a RAID card in the Athlon where the management software work with any drivers newer than XP because they don't have the proper signatures. Keep looking at newer ones, but there just isn't money in the budget for new ones now that we have 2 kids in school. Just upgraded from XP to Win 7 at work last fall when they finally upgraded some of our 5+ yr old computers.

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                      • A Abhinav S

                        OriginalGriff wrote:

                        all my windows closed

                        "Minimize" is a better word.

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                        OriginalGriff
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                        No, they are unweighted sashes - if they minimize they open fully. :laugh:

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                        • J Jimmy Savile

                          If you want to access your desktop and you have lots of screens open you can just click the little vertical rectangle on the far right of the toolbar, next to the time/date. Yes I realise you all know that but I didn't till today. I've spent my whole life patiently minimising every single screen I had open in order to get to the desktop.

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                          There's also a way to filter TABLE in SSMSE Object Explorer. Right click in the context menu ... name a SCHEMA ... voila, instant short list!

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                          • J Jimmy Savile

                            If you want to access your desktop and you have lots of screens open you can just click the little vertical rectangle on the far right of the toolbar, next to the time/date. Yes I realise you all know that but I didn't till today. I've spent my whole life patiently minimising every single screen I had open in order to get to the desktop.

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                            Mike Hankey
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                            You can also hold your left toe with your right thumb and index finger? :) Oh wait that happen's when my cat is on my lap and he swats the keyboard....never mind!

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                              You can also hold your left toe with your right thumb and index finger? :) Oh wait that happen's when my cat is on my lap and he swats the keyboard....never mind!

                              VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.0 ToDo Manager Extension
                              Version 3.0 now available. There is no place like 127.0.0.1

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                              I'd really like to know if SQLServer2012 BOL is still pushing that copycon kludge that BOL for SS2k8: ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v10/MS.SQLSVR.v10.en/s10de_4deptrbl/html/2956df78-833f-45fa-8a10-41d6522562b9.htm (quote) The examples use a sample data file, myTestFormatFiles-c.Dat, which contains the following records. To create the data file, at the Microsoft Windows command prompt, enter: (end quote) ... blah, blah, blah^2 But wait since Windows 8 doesn't necessarily have any DOS support ...

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                              • A Albert Holguin

                                :laugh: Well we all gotta learn somehow... In Windows 7 there's also the window shake trick... You've probably never heard of that either so (bad video but it'll give you the idea): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XVtipEecVw[^]

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                                Jim Meadors
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                                Thanks for the shake tip! It works :)

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